[PaulHoule]

I would say that the evolution of React has slowed down and build tools are in a state of consolidation. Compare development with the abandoned CRA to Vite.

I felt that way about front end end work when I got a FT job working on a React system about 5 years ago but now I don’t feel overwhelmed at all.

The way people talk about it is intimidating though. The average person who wants to make a modern blog should probably host it in Azure or AWS object storage with a generator like Hugo or Pelican. Hugo in particular is zero bullshit if you don’t need to customize it, it is just a simple binary that doesn’t require you to learn anything about go or how people resolve dependencies in go or go build systems. I picked Pelican because it is written in Python and I know I can make it do whatever I want. When I send people to

https://jamstack.org/generators/

It is like waving a red flag in front of a bull in terms of eliciting the reaction of feeling overwhelmed.